Record-card



N. B. BRALY.

RECORD CARD.

APPLICATION F|LED MAR. 29. 1919.

1,327,855, l Patented 13.1.13,1920.

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RECORD-CARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 13, 1920.

Application med March 29, i919. serial No. 286,045.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NORMAN B. BRALY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Butte, in the county of Silver Bow and State of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Record-Cards, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates more particularly to cards for securing a relatively accurate record of the efficiency of individual workmen, and is more especially designed for determining the individual capacities of men working together or in gangs. It is peculiarly adapted, though not necessarily restricted to mining operati-ons where because of insufficient light, it is difiult to read printed descriptions and the The accompanying drawing is a face view of a card particularly intended for recording certain classes of mining work when performed by three men. It will be obvious that the number may be increased or diminished as desired. The card illustrated, comprises three elements in the form of sections 1, 2 and 3 with lines of perforations 4 defining the same and affording convenient means for separating the said sections. Each section is provided in its left-hand margin with an opening 6 so that the card, as a whole, or the individual sections, can be placed in loose-leaf binders for use or retention. The card furthermore has -in the left-hand portion pictorial representations 7 illustrating different operations in mining, these illustrations having descriptive titles 8, and also being provided with reference characters A, B, (3, etc., as shown. It will be noted that the pictures extend the length of the card, and thus are on the different sections.

The right-hand portion of the card or sheet is provided with columns of defined spaces 9, 10 and 11, the different spaces being identified by reference characters corresponding to those applied to the different pictorial, representations. Each section is furthermore provided with a ruled line 12 to receive the number of a workman by which said workman is identified, the word Number7 preferably preceding the said line, as shown. Directly beneath that line is another line 13 adapted to receive the average 'to be determined by the record made of the workmens actual operations, and this line 13 is preferablypreceded, as shown, by the word Total The card is used asipart of a system in which the time actuallyl required by eilicient men to perform the different operations has been carefully predetermined. For example, it is found under certain conditions that one such man can set up a drilling machine in one hour and forty-live minutes, two men in fifty-two minutes, and three men in thirty-five minutes. In the present instance, therefore, the card being a three-man card, thirty-five minutes is given as the time for three men to set up a machine. Likewise in tearing down or removing the machine, three men should perform the operation `in seventeen minutes. It should require sixteen minutes to drill' and blast a hole, and three men should load a car of rock and tram it three hundred feet on an average of ten minutes. Now, if three men are working together in a crosscut for example, it is impracticable to keep the time of the men individually, but at the end of the shift it is possible for the shiftboss to check up the total amount of work done by the three men, to determine just what operations they have performed, and the time they were `so occupied. This, of course, can be averaged equally among them. In case the average falls below the determined standard, the three men can be separated and placed in different combinations, so that if one or more is below the average, the incompetent workman can quickly be 90 located.

Referring to the card which represents a days labor for a gang of three workmen, it will be noted that in that time they set up and took down a drilling machine, drilled and blasted a round of ten holes, and mucked or loaded and trammed away twenty car loads of material. Eight hours or four hundred and eighty minutes were thus required to perform this amount of work. The standard schedule as entered on the shaded spaces 10 of the card shows that it would have required only four hundred and twelve minutes for three efficient men to do the same amount of work. Consequently the particular gang were but eighty-six per cent. efficient.

Each mans number is recorded on one of the sections, and the percentage of his efciency is .recorded on `the total line of 110 that section. It is to be noted that in recording the different operations the Workmen have only to note the picture, ascertain the reference letter applied thereto, and check in the space the Work that he is doing, the overseer or boss keeping an accurate account of the total time employed.

These cards, of course, can be computed vdaily or Weekly and may have various types of illustrations for the different operations that are to be performed and recorded. In any event, it will be observed that a series of cards in turn can be averaged and will show clearly a mans efficiency.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A record card of the character described, having pictorial representations thereon of predetermined operations to be performed, reference characters for the re spective pictorial representations, and defined spaces on the card having designating reference characters corresponding to those of the pictorial representations and adapted to receive records of the corresponding operations as actually performed.

2. A record card of the character de scribed, comprising a plurality of separable sections, said card having pictorial representations of predetermined operations to be performed, reference characters for the re spective pictorial representations, defined spaces on the cards having designating reference characters corresponding to those of the pictorial representations and adapted to receive records of the corresponding operations as actually performed, and defined spaces on each section adapted to receive records of Workmen employed in the said operations.

8. A record card of the character described, comprising a plurality of separable sections, said sections having thereupon pictorial representations ofpredetermined operations to be performed, reference characters for the respective pictorial representations, columns of defined spaces on the different sections having designating reference characters corresponding to those of the pictorial representations, and defined spaces on each of the card sections adapted to receive records of Workmen employed in the operations.

l. A record card of the character described,` having pictorial representations thereon of vpredetermined operations to be performed, defined spaces on the card adapted to respectively receive records of actual operations corresponding to the dierent pictorial representations', and means for identifying the spaces and their corresponding pictorial representations.

5. Recording means of the character set forth comprising a pictorial representation of predetermined operations to be performed, a means for receiving records including defined spaces for respectively receiving the individual records of actual operations corresponding` to those of the pictorial representation, and means for identi'- fying the different features of' the pictorial representation and the spaces in Whichthe individual records thereof are to be placed.

6. Recording means of the character set forth comprising a card element having thereon a pictorial representation of predetermined operations to be performed, a card element having defined spaces for respectively receiving the records of actual operations corresponding to those of the pictorial representation, and means for identifying the different features of' the pictorial representation and the spaces in which the said individual records thereof are to be placed.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

NORMAN B. BRALY.

Witnesses:

H. A. HoLP, PETER BER'roGLIo. 

